[PATCH v7 10/32] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV P9: Reduce irq_work vs guest decrementer races

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Fri May 28 19:07:30 AEST 2021


irq_work's use of the DEC SPR is racy with guest<->host switch and guest
entry which flips the DEC interrupt to guest, which could lose a host
work interrupt.

This patch closes one race, and attempts to comment another class of
races.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c      | 10 ----------
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c    | 15 +++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h
index 8dd3cdb25338..8c2c3dd4ddba 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h
@@ -97,6 +97,18 @@ extern void div128_by_32(u64 dividend_high, u64 dividend_low,
 extern void secondary_cpu_time_init(void);
 extern void __init time_init(void);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
+static inline unsigned long test_irq_work_pending(void)
+{
+	unsigned long x;
+
+	asm volatile("lbz %0,%1(13)"
+		: "=r" (x)
+		: "i" (offsetof(struct paca_struct, irq_work_pending)));
+	return x;
+}
+#endif
+
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(u64, decrementers_next_tb);
 
 /* Convert timebase ticks to nanoseconds */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
index b67d93a609a2..da995c5fb97d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -508,16 +508,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(profile_pc);
  * 64-bit uses a byte in the PACA, 32-bit uses a per-cpu variable...
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
-static inline unsigned long test_irq_work_pending(void)
-{
-	unsigned long x;
-
-	asm volatile("lbz %0,%1(13)"
-		: "=r" (x)
-		: "i" (offsetof(struct paca_struct, irq_work_pending)));
-	return x;
-}
-
 static inline void set_irq_work_pending_flag(void)
 {
 	asm volatile("stb %0,%1(13)" : :
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 466d62b35b6a..d82ff7fe8ac7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -3708,6 +3708,18 @@ static int kvmhv_p9_guest_entry(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit,
 	if (!(vcpu->arch.ctrl & 1))
 		mtspr(SPRN_CTRLT, mfspr(SPRN_CTRLF) & ~1);
 
+	/*
+	 * When setting DEC, we must always deal with irq_work_raise via NMI vs
+	 * setting DEC. The problem occurs right as we switch into guest mode
+	 * if a NMI hits and sets pending work and sets DEC, then that will
+	 * apply to the guest and not bring us back to the host.
+	 *
+	 * irq_work_raise could check a flag (or possibly LPCR[HDICE] for
+	 * example) and set HDEC to 1? That wouldn't solve the nested hv
+	 * case which needs to abort the hcall or zero the time limit.
+	 *
+	 * XXX: Another day's problem.
+	 */
 	mtspr(SPRN_DEC, vcpu->arch.dec_expires - mftb());
 
 	if (kvmhv_on_pseries()) {
@@ -3822,6 +3834,9 @@ static int kvmhv_p9_guest_entry(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit,
 	vc->in_guest = 0;
 
 	mtspr(SPRN_DEC, local_paca->kvm_hstate.dec_expires - mftb());
+	/* We may have raced with new irq work */
+	if (test_irq_work_pending())
+		set_dec(1);
 	mtspr(SPRN_SPRG_VDSO_WRITE, local_paca->sprg_vdso);
 
 	kvmhv_load_host_pmu();
-- 
2.23.0



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